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To: average joe who wrote (9181)	10/6/2010 2:44:42 AM
From: Greg or e	Respond to of 69300

It really really bothers you that your little princess has had to answer to God for her many blasphemous denouncements of God which she openly published doesn't it? She's no different than anyone else. I am not her judge any more than I am the judge of an admitted murderer. I'm just pointing out the obvious according to her own words. As for me I freely admit that I deserve nothing more than judgment and I throw myself on the mercy of God on the sole basis of what Jesus accomplished. What about you?

To: average joe who wrote (9181)	10/6/2010 8:00:09 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

"As a novelist, Rand is of high rank -- so high that the breathless improbabilities she serves up are mountains that she often leaps. As a philosopher, Rand's metaphysics, her approach to logic, and her epistemology in particular seem to me after thirty-five years' study to be challenging and thoughtful and deserving of debate. (Her An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology seems to me likely one of the 20th century's most important philosophical works.)" ..."she was one of the 20th century's most important people, the single person (perhaps after the physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) who seems most destined to affect all of the future." home.ca.inter.net

To: average joe who wrote (9181)	10/6/2010 8:10:00 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

Her Philosophy was incredible: Profound and wonderful... 1. Reality exists as an objective absolute--facts are facts, independent of man's feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. 2. Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses) is man's only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival. 3. Man--every man--is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life. 4. The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man's rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals and foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but historically has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church."

To: average joe who wrote (9181)	10/6/2010 4:01:06 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

From the ARI site: "Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged sold more than 500,000 copies in 2009, more than double the previous record, reports Penguin USA, publisher of the four American editions. For the first time, combined annual sales of Ayn Rand’s four novels totaled more than 1,000,000" In a confusing and chaotic world where religious factions preach nonsense and tribal superiority, and where superstitious thugs and miscreants spoil the safety, the freedom, and the peace of mind of ordinary humankind...masses of people continue to seek rational strength and hope in honest thought and moral living. It makes me proud of MY tribe (of rational and moral people)--proud to see them (especially the youth) standing upright--and separating fact from fiction.